[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 21:22:55 PDT 2015


On 11/08/2015 12:56, Bill Ricker wrote:

...
> books.google must have a vast number of OCR false positives, as Ngram finds
> 'email' in the 19th century. 

Maybe not, since 'émail' is a perfectly fine French word for enamel
that might well have been used by literate writers of English in the 19C.

    Brian





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